Very human side of ‘Pamela’

Ryan White won the trust of Anderson for a doc, then had to see her relive painful era.

When filmmaker Ryan White was an adolescent in the mid-’90s, Pamela Anderson was one of the most famous women in the world — a Playboy cover girl who rose to international superstardom as lifeguard C.J. Parker in the syndicated mega-hit “Baywatch,” married Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee after a whirlwind four-day romance and became ensnared in an early internet scandal when an intimate home video of her and Lee was stolen and distributed online.

But White hadn’t thought about Anderson much in a long time when, a

Where: Netflix

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Rating: TV-MA (may be unsuitable for children under age 17 with advisories for child abuse references, domestic abuse references, smoking, nudity and coarse language)

PAMELA ANDERSON Netf lix cuddles her son in “Pamela, a Love Story,” which offers a compassionate portrait of a woman all too often reduced to a late-night punchline.